From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 10:19:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E81F37B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CFCC43E65 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:19:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g96HJouF030755; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:19:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g96HJn0l030752; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:19:50 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:19:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: JoeB Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PartImage (was RE: Block Zeroing Tool) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, JoeB wrote: > I also have tried to use ghost to make image backups of FBSD, > but the image is the same size as the FBSD slice. > Have you tested the solution posted above to zero out the unused > disk space in the FBSD slice so ghost will only image bkup real data? > Did it work like you hoped? Ghost is terrible. Not the software, but the ridiculous license. Partimage has beta support for UFS, so it should skip unused blocks: http://www.partimage.org Please, please someone port it. For a bootable Linux CD image with partimage and other stuff, see: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message